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Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice (Dress, Body, Culture) by Marie Riegels Melchior (editor), Birgitta Svensson (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice (Dress, Body, Culture) about?

Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice. Chapters explore the role of fashion in the museum across a range of international case studies including the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Fashion Museum at Bath, ModeMuseum in Antwerp and many more. Contributions look at topics such as how fashion has made museums accessible to diverse audiences and how curators present broader themes and issues such as gender, class and technology innovatively through exhibiting fashion. Drawing on approaches from dress history, fashion studies, museum studies and curatorship, this engaging book will be key reading for students and scholars across a range of disciplines. ** Review This timely book explores the recent popularity of fashion in museums and its wider impact on the field. It is organized into three subjects: museums entering into fashion, controversy surrounding the nature of the fashion exhibition where essentially the human body is on display and

Who reads Fashion and Museums: Theory and Practice (Dress, Body, Culture)?

Author

Marie Riegels Melchior (editor), Birgitta Svensson (editor)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloombury Publishing Plc

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472567925

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Design, Crafts & Hobbies